Top 120 Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

102. “Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

103. “We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

104. “The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

105. “By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

106. “A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

107. “Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

108. “The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

109. “The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

110. “Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

111. “God’s Word does not say, “Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing.” Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: “Ask, and it shall be given unto you.””

— Edward McKendree Bounds

112. “Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

113. “Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

114. “Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

115. “The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

116. “Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

117. “Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

118. “We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

119. “Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

120. “He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

121. “In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth – double distilled.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

122. “Pray for ‘all men.’ We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

123. “You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

124. “Preaching is God’s great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold. When wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its damaging results.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

125. “The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

126. “The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

127. “The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it’s knees.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

128. “Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

129. “A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

130. “Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God’s people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds

131. “We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.”

— Edward McKendree Bounds